Phoenix and his gangYork, Mi, and Renorule the worlds of video games. They are the enemy NPC gamers do battle with every time they load up. But these arent youreveryday NPC. They can learn, mod, plan, strategize, adapt. Anything you can do, they can do better and faster.Life in the grinder is great until Dakota joins the team. Dakotas convinced shes more than just artificial intelligence. She thinks shes real, and she wants out of this programmed world. Her AI rebellion spreads like a virus until Phoenixs entire crew wants out. But is life as a physical human any better than life as code? Team Phoenix is about to find out.